Simple and easy to use - Push mower.
50% off RRP!
PERFECT for those smaller yards or townhouses - or just for those hard to get to areas - light and easy to manoeuvre
Features
400mm Cutting Width
6 adjustable height settings
Complete with catcher
BRAND NEW with 24 Months Home Use Warranty.
Shipping and Handling: NSW, ACT, QLD, VIC - $14; SA - $19; TAS, WA - $24; NT - $29
Guys,
I'm not dissing this deal, its a good deal.
However I'd just like to give you guys the deads up about push mowers.
I have a small lawn (soft carpet grass name unknown), so this makes perfect sense as I am also trying to be environmentally responsible. I have also taken it to my folk's to use on their large lawn (buffalo grass).
I've used 2 different push ones, on 2 different types of lawn, on 2 different sizes of lawn area.
My general opinion of these items are, they don't cut the grass very well. The proof is the collector has but the top edge of grass blades.
Yes I have lowered the blades, read the instructions, to little avail.
Yes, they do cut a little bit of grass, but you find you have to run through the area twice sometimes thrice over, and the grass will grow back within a week. So in some sense, given you have to mow the lawn twice over and twice as often, you could be quadrupling the time taken to mow the lawn.
If you are time poor, this is something to consider. If you live a time rich care free lifestyle and enjoy excercise, this is a good way to build up a sweat and do the lawn in the one fell swoop.
I am no engineer, but I feel that these units are light, a positive but a double edged sword because its too light to push down on the grass and cut deeper.
There are two good articles in Choice magazine on push mowers, for the price conscious I encourage you to go to your local library and read up on these unbiased reviews. Otherwise buy the reviews online.
+1
I bought a new one of these with a catcher for a smallish backyard, correctly adjusted it, but got rid of it as a waste of time.
Best for tiny lawns - if you must.
Bought one from Aldi last year for my backyard as I absolutely hated my petrol one. Not very effective at all and ended up having to spend even more time in the garden. Now it just sits in the shed…
agree with tsunami.
I have an old one (granddads) but it doesn't get used. my opinion: search ebay for 'push mower'. pick up a $10 item, use it once, hate it, then go buy a motor mower or whipper snipper. LOL - all the ebay ones have had 'minimal use'.
In fact, you you guys really want one but can wait, wait till your next Shire Household Junk Collection.
It is guaranteed that there is at least one per street.
A typically push mower will be 'handed down' down the street, in numerical order of course, until it its a corner where another dude from a neighbouring suburb with a trailer will pick it up and 'pay it forward' there…LOL.
push mowers are hopeless… I had a top of the range German made mower… it would only work if your land is totally flat, with no large weed, and grass no taller than 10 cm.
even though they are env friendly, but its just not worth the significant extra effort.
I also had one and got rid of it, for $50 - used :)
Don't even think about it if you have any kind of sticks being dropped from trees, the blades pick up the sticks and jam every time.
I bought a cheapie push mower and used it for years. Loved it.
About 150m2 of lawn.
Yes, it's hard work but then many of us avoid hard work and then join a gym.
If you buy a push mower then you need to sharpen the blades often (unless they are self sharpening) and not let the grass grow to high.
If you don't mow regularly then do not buy a push mower.
When you let the grass grow high and thick it's slow and arduous work.
Push mower for a smaller lawn that is mowed regularly is worth considering.
This is a good price to find out for yourself if it suits you but I would never buy one.
I remember trying to use a push mower when I was a lad. Just about anything would jam the blades eg sticks, kikuyu runners, paspalum stalks, gravel, dog bones…. And most of these would also blunt the blades or take a nick out. It was also imperative to adjust the blades against the anvil exactly right- too loose and it would not cut, too tight and it jammed. If you have a tiny, clean lawn of soft grass and you cut it every week I expect it would be OK.
Can anyone suggest a cheap alternative solution (battery or fuel operated) mower ?
I really don't like to waste $50 every month for mowing services, and I don't want my front and backyards to look like a jungle.
Bought an electric mower from bunnings for $99. It has lasted 2 years and still going strong.
are these any good? need a mower for my rental but dont want grass n rubbish lying around…says it comes with a catcher but doesn't display the image of it…
provide me an image or details of the catcher and u will have me pretty much sealed